a growing body of research has indicated that students of esl/efl are reticent and unwilling to be engaged in oral activities in english lessons. communicative language ability includes speaking ability, so vocabulary knowledge plays an integral role in speaking a language. however, there have been few studies examining the degree to which vocabulary knowledge affects speaking ability. the pres...

Power plant operation and monitoring systems will incorporate more and more multimedia information and technology, bringing a sense of visual reality into the control room and providing more effective communication using a richer vocabulary of media. We outline several new advanced techniques of ongoing research for organizing, communicating, browsing, and filtering integrated power plant contr...

This study aimed at examining the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and learning English language vocabulary. The male (N= 119) and female (N= 98) participants who were randomly selected from high schools in Zanjan Province were asked to complete a Persian version of an emotional intelligence (EI) questionnaire and answer a vocabulary achievement test. The EI questionnaire consis...

the present study is a research which explores the relationship between introversion/extroversion and the use of vocabulary learning strategies. the participants were 80 male and female efl students of university of sistan and baluchestan who had studied efl at the university for at least two years and were randomly selected. the participants were selected after excluding those who got l scores...

We discussed utilization of features based on the glottal sound source for speaker independent speech recognition. It has been thought that such features as pitch cannot contribute to speaker independent speech recognition because of the dominant speaker dependent factor. In this paper, we tried to utilize pitch, power, LPC residual power, voicing rate, and their regression coefficients as feat...

A new variant of AdaBoost is applied to a Minimum Bayes Risk discriminative training procedure that directly aims at reducing Word Error Rate for Automatic Speech Recognition. Both techniques try to improve the discriminative power of a classifier and we show that can be combined together to yield even better performance on a small vocabulary continuous speech recognition task. Our results also...

The primary long term goal of speech research at Dragon Systems is to develop algorithms that are capable of achieving very high performance large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. At the same time, we are also concerned to keep the demands of those algorithms for computational power and memory as modest as possible, so that the results of our research can be incorporated into products ...

The introduction of unary connectives has proved to be an important addition to the categorial vocabulary. The connectives considered so far are order-preserving; in this paper instead, we consider the addition of order-reversing, Galois connected operators. In §2 we do the basic model-theoretic and proof-theoretic groundwork. In §3 we use the expressive power of the Galois connected operators ...